What's your favorite foreshadowing moment in a cartoon?
Looking back at the carpet episode, the entire thing now feels very obvious (experiments took place in the shack, a room was hidden for no apparent reason, Stan being upset) and Im surprised people still had doubts at the twin brother theory after it aired
What's your favorite foreshadowing moment in a cartoon?
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Samuel Walker
Nothing in cartoons comes close to the foreshadowing of the doll falling down in magnetic rose. But the next best thing is Zuko screaming at the top of the mountain in a thunderstorm.
Justin Bell
Heed the warning of the alligator: THE DOG DIES
Ayden Allen
I actually liked how Headhunters and Legend of the Gobblewalker foreshadowed Stan's backstory a bit better due to being a little more subtle and sad.
That and some of the more blatant shit in the between season shorts is pretty great too.
>the great deals at this place are making me see double!
Sebastian Evans
Leo Morgan
Well now I'm sad.
Hudson Davis
"Norman Osborn" going to Oscorp the same night the Green Goblin robs it in the Halloween. It throws little details that something is off about the entire scene several episodes before the big reveal.
Luke Lee
One of the many reasons that Spectacular Spiderman is one of my favorite renditions of Green Goblin arc.
Juan Adams
Not really my favorite, but in my opinion one of the best example of early foreshadowing.
The cookie cat theme has the lines "a refugee of an interstellar war" and "he left his family behind!" which correlates with the CGs and Rose/Pink Diamond 's backstory.
And pic related is why Rebecca is, in my eyes, an evil genius.
Ian Sanchez
Pink!Steven probably wasn't set in stone at that point (maybe shortly after the series started) but the cookie cat thing is definitely on point.
Thomas Morris
I mean, Hawkmoth's identity was always super obvious from the beginning but I still like some of the more subtle clues sprinkled in
Isaac Gonzalez
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>ready to see the inner sanctum?
>born that way
Zachary Miller
>Zuko screaming
How is that forshadowing? For when he redirects Ozai's lightning or his fight with Azula?
Colton Ross
I was expecting him to take the Flex Fighters' side after finding out the truth about Rook and be the "tough but fair" mentor to them, so his reveal genuinely took me by surprise. It helps that there was no foreshadowing beyond pic related and his timing when Jake talked about secrets.
Angel Parker
Its hard to tell if this is more of a callback or actual foreshadowing, but its neat either way.
Xavier Adams
What show is this from?
Hunter Rogers
Was that green screen infomercial bit ever confirmed by a crew member as intentional foreshadowing, or is it just another case of a fandom interpreting a silly joke as something much deeper?
I fucking despise when the latter happens with Gravity Falls and Steven Universe.
Jose Sanchez
That short is probably my favorite GF foreshadowing too.
Samuel Smith
Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters
William Garcia
That feels more like a callback. A damn good callback, but still one.
Dominic Johnson
His fight with Azula. He demands to have lightning thrown at him and she instead goes for Katara.
Ryder Clark
His vanity plate said Stanley Mobile. I think they were being as blatantly obvious as they could about the twin reveal. There's so much foreshadowing about Stanford that I don't see why it wouldn't be.
Landon Martin
Well, of course STNLYMBL was an obvious case of foreshadowing, but I’m not convinced that is anything more than just a simple gag. I wanna hear a confirmation directly from a crew member before I believe that it was also foreshadowing.
Jordan Morgan
Carpet episode?
Benjamin Watson
>Nothing in cartoons comes close to the foreshadowing of the doll falling down in magnetic rose.
What?
Owen Roberts
A scene from this
Jace Rodriguez
Yeah I've seen it, I just don't remember the scene being referenced or how it was foreshadowing.
Matthew Roberts
>and his timing when Jake talked about secrets.
Huh? When was that?
Liam Gutierrez
I don't remember what he's referring to either, but I also haven't seen it in 14 years.
Tyler Clark
In the Gabe-Farious episode. Stretch talks about people hiding their true selves just right before Kane's Delta Squad shows up.
Justin Long
Alex openly stated that the Stanley/Stanford twin brother twist was planned from the beginning, and this came out between seasons 1 and 2. I really don't see how it couldn't have been on purpose when they were dropping obvious hints about it as early as Time Traveler's pig. Some other low key hints were even earlier than that.
Jonathan Miller
What is this foreshadowing?
Colton Gonzalez
When they enter one of the rooms, not long after first entering, a porcelain doll falls off a table and breaks into pieces. It's my favourite moment of foreshadowing. But this scene is honestly full of them.
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Ethan Ross
Don’t get me wrong, I’m well aware about Grunkle Ford being hinted at since the beginning, but that infomercial gag is literally just a joke that fans could’ve overanalyzed, much like SU fans overanalyzed Uncle Grandpa’s “diamond-polishing” line.
Has a crew member actually stated that the specific GF short in question was foreshadowing? If not, then I’d just assume you’re all reading into nothing yet again.
Henry Edwards
Oh it foreshadows the reveal that his daughter died? She full off the roof, right?
I don't think that's that great of an example.
Jayden Barnes
It's from Little Gift Shop of Horrors. It's foreshadowing Stan and Ford's complicated relationship growing up. They used to be on a relatively even playing field, but as they grew older, Stanford started getting a whole lot smarter, and a rift started to form between them. Eventually, Stanley felt as though his brother had left him in the dust to move on to bigger and better things, and that he'd lost his closest friend. The main difference between the stories is that Stanley gives the story between Mabel and Waddles and ending he wishes he could've had.
James Roberts
They should have ordered the shorts Smelly Guy, Fire the Big Gun, then Astronauts.
Jackson Green
You're talking about a show where the creator was disappointed that no one figured out that a rainbow reflection from a quick clip in Gideon Rises was related to the prism that was shown in one of the background shots of Carpet Diem.
Also, even if it was somehow completely unintentional, despite Alex constantly loving to tease that kind of stuff teasing the exact same way in Headhunters, unintentional foreshadowing is still foreshadowing.
Carson King
It's great in its simplicity. I think what makes it work so well is how it's reinforced and how it's paid-off. Most directors want to be lauded for a great reveal on the same level as something out of Sixth Sense. However, I don't think that a great reveal is in the creation of a head scratcher that all makes sense on a re-watch. I think it's in the presentation. I guess a professional writer would call it the Lubitsch touch.
Adam Allen
>unintentional foreshadowing is still foreshadowing
Benjamin Rogers
Yes. Foreshadowing is an allusion in the story that predicts a later event or plot point. While this is more often than not done intentionally, authors can sometimes subconsciously hint at future events in a way they hadn't initially intended, because it's sitting there in the back of their minds the whole time they're writing it. Additionally, writers will sometimes recontextualize elements of their story into foreshadowing if they decide that it fits in with later themes of the story.
Kayden Ward
it’s just a joke, bro.
y’know, haha Stan’s a rookie with green screen effects?
Asher Harris
>a joke can't foreshadow upcoming events
Foreshadowing isn't deep bruh. It's just when a piece of media purposefully or accidentally hints at something that's coming later down the line.
Liam Brooks
arguably better: the cookie cat song actually foreshadows centipeetle's backstory, who appears in the same episode.
Alexander Moore
The thing with Stretch Monster was pretty obvious, but I liked how they had Rook subtly praise himself whenever he talked about Stretch Monster with the team. The smugness is fun to watch on the second go.
Joshua Allen
Gravity Falls up until the end of Not What He Seems is god tier. Have no fucking clue what happened after that. It's like Hirsch had the entire story laid out up until the twin reveal and then afterwards he just didn't know what the fuck to do.
Kayden Campbell
I like how during the first time we see what Rose looks like, this is what is shown and we can interpret this in many different ways
>The way how Rose is framed as this perfect being by the Crystal Gems and how Steven slowly shatters that image by uncovering more of her secrets
>Rose was "framed" by Pearl for the "death" of Pink Diamond
Jaxon Hill
Problem was he had to condense or get rid of shit I guess. He originally planned on 3 seasons, or at least 2 seasons + a movie but got sick of working for Disney and decided to stop at just 2 seasons. Season 2B was indeed a mess.
Jayden Walker
Better example
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Luis Wood
Pearl's body language was the most subtle and overlooked form of foreshadowing from this show. I'm not sure if it was actually planned from the beginning but in the end everything about it makes sense.
Mason Cook
Every /gfg/ thread in a nutshell for those that didn’t watch it as it aired
>incestfags
>footfags
>DEEP loreposting
>Stanley is the superior Stan twin, fuck Great Asshole Ford
>Pepsi Max
>Dipper’s cheeks
>Dipper Goes To Taco Bell
>ThompGodfags
>WenDipfags
>Pacifica’s giant titties
>PaDippicafags
>Billdipfags
>Roadside Attraction is shit
>I want to fuck Dipper
>I want to fuck Pacifica
>I want to fuck Mabel
>I want to fuck Wendy
>I want to fuck Rule 63 TJ Miller
>I want to fuck Bill
>I want to fuck Stan, not Ford.
>Mabel is cute. CUTE! (Pre-Love God)
>Mabel is a cunt. CUNT! (Post Love God)
>The Northern Pines Meltdown
>gay chubby chasers that came out of fucking nowhere and thankfully rebounded after the show was over by migrating to Big City Greens/Victor & Valentino to start lusting over the dad and Valentino